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KB57's 2017 UK list
Taking stock of an ultimately successful years birding, 188 might not impress many but it's the largest number of species I've seen in a single year in Britain. I didn't think I'd make it at the start of the year due to work and other time constraints, and said I'd try for a 'two-year'...- kb57
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KB57's 2017 UK list
Brief trip to Islay was planned as an attempt to get me over the 182 mark, after last years visit to Galloway dipped on both white-fronted goose and black guillemot. 16th December, Kennacraig, West Loch Tarbert 182. great northern diver* 183. black guillemot* B (: beating my 1972 UK PB! 17th...- kb57
- Post #52
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KB57's 2017 UK list
Not been able to get out birding for the last few weeks, due to work and family commitments. However yesterday I had to go to Heysham, Lancashire for work, and finished what I had to do by early afternoon. Before heading back north I checked BirdGuides local sightings, which brought me a...- kb57
- Post #51
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KB57's 2017 UK list
Day trip up to Aberlady Bay on Saturday for a change of scene and coastal walk. Saw a bit less than last time we went (early 2016) - fewer fieldfares, no blackcaps, no Slavonian grebe in Gullane Bay. However, had the 'scope to hand to add what is I guess a nailed-on certainty for this site...- kb57
- Post #50
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KB57's 2017 UK list
I'll be working late tonight to compensate for my longer than usual lunch hour, but it was worth it for the chance to add a second phalarope to my list. The usual inverse relationship between availability of camera and closeness of view rule was operating - views were stunning. 9th November...- kb57
- Post #49
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KB57's 2017 UK list
No time to get out much and watch birds last weekend, but thanks to BirdGuides we still managed to twitch two additions in Northumberland to my year list, both 'lifers' for my partner. It helped that we needed to go to Morpeth anyway, but we'd both probably have preferred a long coastal walk...- kb57
- Post #48
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KB57's 2017 UK list
Family taxi duties gave me a free afternoon in Yorkshire on Saturday. I was intending to go to Blacktoft Sands to see if the curlew sandpiper reported earlier in the week was still there, then head across to Fairburn Ings to tick off willow tit. A quick check of a certain rival twitching...- kb57
- Post #47
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KB57's 2017 UK list
After kick-starting my list before the weekend, 21st-22nd October didn't really pan out as planned... As my partner reminded me, I'd explained to her a while ago that she would unfortunately have absolutely no chance of seeing a bee-eater this year...I was proven wrong at Druridge Pools on...- kb57
- Post #46
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KB57's 2017 UK list
Working in Teesside today, and added one that I should've seen in the latter part of last winter, but didn't. 20th October, Eaglescliffe 172. redwing Once I finished work, the relative proximity of RSPB Saltholme tempted me. Another species I should've had by now was quickly added. Year...- kb57
- Post #45
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KB57's 2017 UK list
A number of years ago (early '90s I think) I turned up at a black-winged stilt twitch at Wallsend Swallow Ponds. The stilt was roosting at the time, head tucked in, and was trying its best to look uninteresting. Elsewhere on the pond was a veritable wader-fest...spotted redshank, curlew...- kb57
- Post #44
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KB57's 2017 UK list
No more additions to the UK list due to being on holiday, a few 'world' list additions though...as before * = not seen last year, capitals = lifer 28th September: Santa Luzia, Portugal greater flamingo, yellow-legged gull (although can't believe I didn't see one in Geneva...), Audouin's gull...- kb57
- Post #43
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KB57's 2017 UK list
Early start this morning as I took my partner to the airport. Another few days before I join her in Portugal, and a last chance to focus on my UK list before we reach the end of September and the realisation that there are quite a few summer migrants I'm not going to get this year. Had to go to...- kb57
- Post #42
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KB57's 2017 UK list
Just been puzzling over a discrepancy between Scythebill and the list I keep on here...hadn't added razorbill from my Coquet Island trip! A bonus species, which I'd overlooked probably because I'd normally have a visit to St. Abb's earlier in the year, and assumed they were already on the...- kb57
- Post #41
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KB57's 2017 UK list
10th September, Leighton Moss Meant to have a non-birding couple of days in the Lakes, but the appalling weather on Sunday meant a diversion to the shelter of the hides at RSPB Leighton Moss, and an impromptu twitch was in order. We were one of the luckier ones to arrive at the Grisedale Hide...- kb57
- Post #40
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KB57's 2017 UK list
26th August, RSPB Blacktoft Sands After seeing spoonbills, green sandpiper and spotted redshank, it was inevitable that my partner didn't want to miss out...she was successful with all three, also adding garganey to her year list. Marsh harriers, ruff and lots of snipe also made for a great...- kb57
- Post #39
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KB57's 2017 UK list
24th August, Druridge Pools Found a spot for spotting spotted crake, which sadly remained unspotted; however my wader list continued its progress towards respectability... 165. little ringed plover- kb57
- Post #38
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KB57's 2017 UK list
As work found me in Immingham on Friday, with a free Saturday to follow, I took the opportunity to road-test the new birdwatching site guide for Yorkshire. Mixed fortunes, but overall managed to move the list along nicely: 18th August, RSPB Blacktoft Sands 157. green sandpiper * 158. common...- kb57
- Post #37
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KB57's 2017 UK list
No further additions last weekend, needing to go to Carlisle we tagged on a first ever visit to RSPB Campfield Marsh. Worth it for the white beak-sedge and black darter on the raised mire, but really not the right season for visiting this Solway goose site. Summer plumage dunlin and moulting...- kb57
- Post #36
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KB57's 2017 UK list
Couple of days off in London with one of the main 'targets' the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum; also managed another.. 22nd July: Kensington Gardens 156. little owl ...saw Mandarin and Egyptian goose too, which I'd feel happier ticking if they were...- kb57
- Post #35
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KB57's 2017 UK list
Work took me to Cambridgeshire last week, giving me the opportunity to visit a nature reserve famous for nightingales...which weren't singing this late in July; however I did catch up with a few other species which have managed to elude me until now. July 13th: Paxton Pits 152. green...- kb57
- Post #34
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KB57's 2017 UK list
After six months, ahead of my 2016 total (142), and more intriguingly keeping up with my uber-keen teenage birder 1972 half-year total of 148...I still had the Dorset heathlands and Suffolk wetlands and heaths to come that year though.. 3rd July: near Frosterley, Co.Durham 151. common redstart...- kb57
- Post #33
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KB57's 2017 UK list
24th June: Coquet Island 146. Arctic tern 147. Atlantic puffin 148. razorbill 149. whimbrel * 150. roseate tern Took lots of photos, but a roseate tern flight pic (as opposed to one stood next to a numbered nest box) still eludes me. A UK whimbrel eluded me all last year, and was a welcome and...- kb57
- Post #32
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KB57's 2017 UK list
21st June: SE Northumberland 145. peregrine 23rd June, S Yorkshire - 2 more peregrines...like buses, wait six months then 3 come along at once! (locations redacted - first possible, second definitely breeding (adult / juv))- kb57
- Post #31
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KB57's 2017 UK list
20th June: SE Northumberland 144. grasshopper warbler * A very satisfying addition to the year list - heard reeling early morning, so I settled down and waited, determined it wasn't going to be another 'heard only'. Took a bit of patience, but it eventually moved from cover and perched on a...- kb57
- Post #30
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KB57's 2017 UK list
13th June: upper Coquetdale, Northumberland evening visit to a woodland where we've previously seen redstart, spotted flycatcher and (a few years ago) tree pipit...today cuckoo, sparrowhawk and redpoll made for an interesting walk, but for the year list only produced: 143. woodcock garden...- kb57
- Post #29
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